Speech by a Turkish archaeologist, ship's investigator
Products and merchandise from nine different cultures, from Sicily in the west to Mesopotamia in the east carried the ship of the end of the 14th century. X. century, which had been shipwrecked on the east coast of Ulumburun (Megalo Akrotiri) in the Antalya region in the south – western Turkey. The business is also huge, which lasted for years, organized in modern times to investigate this wreck, which yielded rich and impressive findings.
It is therefore particularly interesting to watch the lecture of the Turkish professor of Archeology Enalia, Mr. Cemal Pulak themed: "Bringing to light the oldest sailing ship – Late Bronze Age Wreck at Uluburun, Turkey", which will be given to the Acropolis Museum on 14 Of March, time 19.00. The organizer is Melissa Publishing House, which establishes from this year _and every spring_ a series of annual lectures in memory of its founder, Giorgos Rayas with invited scientists of international prestige and with topics of Greek history, art and architecture through the ages, as well as the sectors covered by the publishing house. The speaker will be prefaced by Mr. professor of the University of Athens Mr. Christos Dumas.
His summer 1982 was located by a sponge in the area known as the "Ulumburun Shipwreck" on the bottom of the eastern coast of the Great Cape and from the 1984 as the 1992 eleven archaeological operations were carried out and 22.413 (!) diving, in order to fully come to light, through the waters of the Mediterranean one of the most impressive underwater finds of the Late Bronze Age.
The research was carried out by the Enalia Institute of Archaeology, an international organization that was founded precisely in 1984, initially under the guidance of its founder, professor George Bass while from the 1985 as the 1994 the director of archaeological research at the Institute was Cemal Pulak.
The ship had sailed from a port in Cyprus or Syro-Palestine 1305 p. X. as his load showed. Without a doubt in fact, when it sank, sailed to the west of Cyprus with a final destination probably Rhodes, which at that time was an important transit center in the Aegean.
There were many findings from the wreck investigation, which today are kept in the Museum of Underwater Archeology in the city of Bodrum (Halicarnassus) even parts of the ship itself. Gold objects, copper, ivory, faience, agate, clay are included among them.
Upon completion anyway, of the on-site archaeological research the 1994 at the bottom of Ulumburun, specialist efforts have since been focused on maintenance, the study and analysis of samples in the Museum's conservation laboratory.
Mr. Cemal Pulak besides, graduate of Bosphorus University, Ph.D. of Texas A & M University and associate professor of Enalia Archeology at the same university specializes in the Bronze Age and specifically in the fields of navigation, of merchant shipping and technology.
Source : tovima.gr
